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...central contradiction of capitalism, which Marx elaborated in Das Kapital, gives birth to three other contradictions. They are all grist to Stalin's mill...
...Japanese bombing during six years as ambassador to China, who had skillfully dealt with Joseph Stalin as wartime ambassador to Moscow, seemed old and tired. During his two-year U.S. tenure he had avoided the press, neglected receptions, become bored with the intricate economic problems which are the daily grist of present U.S.British relations. After 42 years in the diplomatic service, he was going back to his estate at Loch Eck in Scotland, to raise sheep and cattle, do some shooting on the moors. His replacement, Sir Oliver Franks, will arrive in the U.S. this week...
...Jews have a large publicity mill, with little real grist. Haganah, hard-pressed by the Arabs and taunted by the Irgun and Stern groups, is terrified of news which might affect "security" or show Haganah in anything but glorious victory...
Everything is grist for his mill: comic strips, eating habits, dates, company picnics, pet names, bull sessions, charity drives, the State Department, foreigners, middle-aged women, vitamins, public opinion polls, antiSemitism, poker games, investment capital, psychoanalysis, the Senate and the Statue of Liberty. Much of the book is funny, some of it is brilliant; all of it would be improved if the author had left out the high-toned language and one-way-glass point of view of anthropology...
Like Karl Earth's, his method is dialectic; that is, he sees in paradox not the defeat of logic but the grist of an intellectual calculus-a necessary climbing tool for attempting the higher peaks of thought. The twists & turns of his reasoning and his wary qualifications are not hedging, but the effort to clamber after truth. He knows that simplicity is often merely the misleading coherence of complexity...